Meditation is to calm the mind and expand consciousness. People
do meditation practice, and it has been known since a long time ago.
Meditation is a source of inspiration, and it is helpful in
coping with chronic disorders or stress.
Due to psychological stress, many disorders are developed and meditation
practices such as mindfulness meditation are beneficial for reducing stress,
depression and anxiety.
According to the study reveals patients with active
depression and anxiety have participated in meditation course showed a
reduction of both depression and anxiety. Yoga practising is also examined in many studies as a depression
treatment and showed some promising results even in distressed women.
Meditation is to calm the mind. The main practice is to achieve ‘naked’
awareness without content. There are
also meditative techniques like:
- Mindfulness
- Concentration and
- Automatic self-transcendence
One can do mindfulness meditation which can be described as non-elaborative and non-judgmental awareness. Mindfulness training is thought to be beneficial for health due to developing new emotion regulation strategies like observing and accepting emotions without judgement.
Nowadays, across the world, people are using these practices
in order to obtain well-being, improve their condition in chronic diseases and
reduce stress. The main purpose of
practising mindfulness to become more reflective and more resistant to
unpleasantness inside us which is thought to be beneficial for our psychical
health. It is enlightenment of our hearts.
Constantly, in order to keep pace with the changing
scenario, human is exposed to stress. Due
to which people are suffering from psychological stress in order to adapt to
changing environments and thus it triggers too many physiological responses
like the nervous system, peripheral organs, immune system but also the brain
which eventually will have an impact on behaviour.
Keeping in mind the stress, two therapies have come into
rescue one is Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and another one is
just usual therapy alone (TAU group). As
a result, the study showed a positive effect and beneficial in treating especially
of those who have symptoms of active depression and anxiety.
Meditation does bring significant improvements in mood,
stress, sleep quality, well-being, and mental health component of quality of
life.
Online meditation is also examined for its efficacy. This online programme is comprised of modules
from Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive
Therapy. This module is extremely
helpful for those who have post-traumatic stress disorder because it helps in
reducing the symptoms. It also showed
greater improvements of those who are alcoholics and smokers. It has been noticed with meditation
intervention, improved mental health and decreased stress, anxiety, and
depression.
Broadly classified the influence of meditation on migraines. It has been divided into four groups:
- Spiritual Meditation
- Internally Focused Secular Meditations
- Externally Focused Secular Meditation and
- Progressive Muscle Relaxation
The main result is to decrease the frequency of migraine
headaches.
For ages, meditation is a practice known but only decades
ago it started gaining popularity across the world. Many studies of meditation practices revealed
immense beneficial effects on depression, mood, anxiety and stress. Nowadays
people are under more and more stress, meditation may be a useful practice in
maintaining health and wellbeing.
People are more aware of the effects of practices such as mindfulness meditation or yoga and consider their pivotal role especially in addressing psychological stress. In meditation, it has been controlled through mental silence approach to meditation and then relaxation to active control which gives a significant improvement of reduced work stress and depressed mood. However, further researches on meditation practices are still needed.
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